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"Fuck off, poor people!" says Canada's national newspaper

After instituting a paywall on their website last year that allows readers to access 10 free articles per month, publisher and chief executive Philip Crawley spoke to Journalism.co.uk about what the paper has learned about its readership and how that has affected the paper’s behaviour.

The City of Winnipeg recently unveiled a controversial plan to turn what is currently an underpopulated section of downtown into a residential neighbourhood. In a bid to fill empty condos and spur development of new ones in the heritage Exchange District, the city plans to fork over $10,000 cheques to anyone who buys a condo in the area and commits to living there for at least five years.

“I’ve always wanted to work as cabin crew — but I’ve never had a boss, so didn’t take too well to Tony’s orders,” Branson wrote on his blog. “Moments after getting onto the flight, I ‘accidentally’ spilled a whole tray of drinks over him.”

Canada’s top one per cent earned 10.6 per cent of the nation’s total income in 2010, according to Statistics Canada numbers released today. This is down from a peak of 12.1 per cent in 2006 but a 37 per cent increase from 1982, when numbers were first recorded.

Last night America’s greatest director, actor, writer and perma-stoned heartthrob James Franco uploaded a groundbreaking video of himself and girlfriend Ashley Benson covering Justin Bieber’s 2012 single “Boyfriend.” Franco has adorned himself with a straight-haired wig, baseball cap and hoodie to look like early-2012 Bieber, in his halcyon days before the haircut that signalled his […]

What if Mitt Romney said that Jews were good with money? That would be racist, or at least stupid, to say about a group of people. But Willard thinks the economic success of Israel compared to the Palestinians next door is partly due to “culture.”

The Bilderbergs gather once a year to discuss issues of global importance and bask in their own magnificence. At the end of their super-duper secret meetings, they all drink the blood of a newborn baby and swear allegiance to the devil (according to some).

Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan over the weekend at a surprise ceremony. About 100 “friends” were “invited to an event” at the couple’s home in Palo Alto for what they thought was a celebration of Chan’s recent graduation from medical school. Instead, it turns out to have been a wedding.

When a group of friends saw a Lamborghini Gallardo stopped at a red light in Chicago, they did the sensible thing and started recording. Now we have glorious video of someone being overly cocky with his left turn and crashing his car.